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Is there any fate worse than to be a midwit? Being in the 110-125IQ range is truly the worst fate mankind has to offer to a human. You're smart enough to not be a drooling retard like most normies, but you're not smart enough to figure out things in life. When pursuing philosophy you're smart enough to read the right persons, but you're not smart enough to truly get what they were talking about beyond the usual interpretations, so you miss 90% of the point of their works. When reading literature you're smart enough to have a decent taste and seek the classics, but you're not smart enough to truly get on a subconcious level why such and such author is great. When writing literature you're smart enough to know that your writing is shit, that it lacks rhythm, word choice, poetic sensibility, etc, but you're not smart enough to be able to overcome your limitations. You're smart enough to be a fraud.

>> No.13482362

joe rogan is cool tho. i mean, yeah his opinions should be completely disregarded, but he's a total bro

>> No.13482372

Where's Destiny?

>> No.13482377
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Feels bad

>> No.13482380

>>13482362
also, but otherwise it's a stunningly accurate image, and also i didnt read op post only responding to the image

>> No.13482409

>>13482353
>Varg not pictured
based

>> No.13482482
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13482482

>i'm not on this list
feels good brehs

>> No.13482510

>>13482353
Wow, good thing I'm 127

>> No.13482515

>>13482353
With an IQ of 120, you may vey well read and understand all philosophers, given the proper training. An IQ of 120 doesn't mean you cannot do it, but it will take you longer than somebody with 140. Plus, intelligence is not wisdom.

>> No.13482526

>>13482482
Make more songs, Book Club Guy

>> No.13482858

Just start over with 1% well keep the 130iq smooth brains as janitors and trained monkeys

>> No.13482977
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>>13482353
IQ doesn't mean jack shit fuck off with your Egypticism.

>> No.13483001

Wouldn't know desu, I'm 130 IQ masterrace. Clever enough to have everybody describe you as the cleverest guy they know, but also clever enough to know that you possess no real intellectual flair and never will.

>> No.13483010

>>13482353
High IQ is reading a philosopher and coming to your own conclusions

>> No.13483039

>>13482353
i'm a midwit and proud desu
real intellectuals seem like miserable people who think they're destined for something greater. i met many 140+ burnouts when I was placed in a gifted education program (took the RAVEN and another test at age 9 for giftedness identification, which was extremely inaccurate with my adult IQ due to heritability of IQ increasing dramatically with age) and a good chunk of them are NEETs, college drop-outs, and a couple lads in academia who want to blow their brains out.

yeah, I'll take my afternoon beer and the good ol' telly/vidya with the boys, my loving midwit gf, along with my nightly, slow-paced reading, thank you very much.

>> No.13483072

>>13482353
>Moldbug
Based and whig-pilled

>> No.13483087

>>13482977
expand.

>> No.13483099

>>13482353
Comparing Chomsky with those people is ridiculously dumb.

>> No.13483150

>>13482353
Just check them out you nigger.

>> No.13483293

>>13482353
I pity the midwits, and i laugh at the retards. What's sad is that they could almost be like you, but not quite there.

>> No.13483301

>>13483039
based midwit. Midwits are only miserable from an intellectual standpoint. In reality they should have they best capacity for happiness and success.

>> No.13483343

Gore Vidal is a deep cut. Do people even read him anymore?

>> No.13483360

>>13483039
this. wish i could shave 20 IQ points off and become a midwit, work ethic is more important than intelligence.

>> No.13483363

>>13482515
My iq is 112

>> No.13483366

>>13482353
why lindybeige :(

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>>13482353
I feel you, fellow midwit. Life is hell when you can understand and appreciate intelligence, but are barred from experiencing it yourself forever, leaving you to rot at the fringes of intellectual society, merely observing and evying the greatness.

>>13483039
>took the RAVEN and another test at age 9 for giftedness identification, which was extremely inaccurate with my adult IQ due to heritability of IQ increasing dramatically with age

yeah, same here, fuck that shit. being raised well is a curse more than a blessing because it gives you a headstart in intelligence, deluding you into thinking you’re more than painfully mediocre, which makes the eventual realization that you’re but a pathetic midwit all the more soul-crushing.

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>>13483363
might as well kill yourself desu. My 118 is already hell, I can’t image why one’d even live with 112.

>> No.13483518

>>13482353
Thank God I'm sub 85 and can chill

>> No.13483530

>>13482353
How do you stop being a midwit then

>> No.13483553

>>13482353
Honest question: if they're not intellectuals, then name me 3 intellectuals that are still alive whose reason you consider him for being an intellectual is not just "he writes beautifully".

>> No.13483570

>>13482482
hi Quentin

>> No.13483577

>>13483099
u know chomsky is a fraud if you are a student of linguistics.

>> No.13483587
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>>13482353
When you’re smart enough to lurk on the right board, but your too fucking stupid to contribute anything

LMAO at all of you

>> No.13483592

>>13483039
based conformist

>> No.13483606

>>13482353
I thought midwit meant an idiot

>> No.13483622

>>13482353
>You're not smart enough to truly get on a subconscious level why such and such author is great
Brainlet 125-140 speak. Anyone with an IQ of 140+ would kill themselves at the thought of their subconscious understanding not being brought to the forefront of consciousness and obliterated from the background. I weep for the men born without the only gift worth having.

>> No.13483686

>>13483039
profoundly based

>> No.13483698

>>13483099
same with Zizek and Bloom

>> No.13483729

>>13483622
I was 133 less than 10 years ago.
Now after years of slaving away and wasting my time in cheap distractions and idle chat I feel less than I was and I don't even dare to take the test again.
I often wonder if I ever will find my younger self again, that easiniess to convey myself to the world.

>> No.13483755
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The creator of this chart has all these right wing and liberal literal retards like Gavin, PJW, and h3h3 and he was like hmm i don't want this to be overtly political so I better add some leftists and the best he could come up with is Zizek and Chomsky who have both published dozens of books and been cited hundreds of times each lol the absolute state of non-leftists man

>> No.13483781

>>13483001
based retard.
135IQ is the true master race, because it's basically the same, but you get glimpses of real brilliance once a month.

>> No.13483827
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>>13483553
Jordan Peterson

>> No.13483828

>>13483755
well it is the easier way to discredit someone without really saying anything
simply associate them with youtubers and comedian
it's propaganda 101

>> No.13483838

>>13483606
You're thinking of dimwit or halfwit

>> No.13483839

bruh if you put Zizek on here I'm certain you have never read any of his serious books or listened to any of his serious lectures. He's not a midwit, he's a legitimate academic figure.

>> No.13483855

>>13483839
Truly a midwit for not understanding that that's the bloody joke

>> No.13483881

>>13483606
Thats dimwit, dimwit.

>> No.13483899

>>13483855
are you trying to say they just randomly threw his image in there with all the frauds as a joke, like haha laugh at this irony? I don't buy that. Whoever put Zizek in that image was trying to compare him to the other people in the image... that's extremely obvious.

>> No.13483939

>>13483899
Yes, along with a few other genuine intellectuals (e.g. Peter Hitchens) too. These people have received popular acclaim as well as intellectual success, so whoever created the image was just lazily insulting them by suggesting that, by virtue of their popularity, they deserved to be categorised alongside all of these YouTube personalities and low-IQ thinkers.

Only a midwit would fail to understand that desu

>> No.13484020

>>13483855
>>13483939
>I'm not retarded I'm only pretending to be one
;^ )

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Names pls.

>> No.13484047

>>13484034
my name's Darren

>> No.13484053

>>13484034
5 is comedian Nick Mullen and I believe 15 is Nick Land.

>> No.13484151

>>13484034
2 is david ike
8 pat buchanan
20 mike cernovich
11 lauren southern
14 brian cox

>> No.13484179

>>13484034
17 is Farrakhan
19 is some fat Twitter goblin idr the name of

>> No.13484201

>>13483838
>>13483881
thanks

>> No.13484209

>>13484201
nigger

>> No.13484232

>>13484034
15 - Nick Land r/acc daddy

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>>13482353
>popular American intellectuals
please stop

and Chomsky for what he's worth shouldn't be on there

>> No.13484440

OP, take it from somebody that’s been tested to have an IQ of 158 and has spent a good portion of life studying philosophy, reading books and understanding them isn’t all there is to life, but you probably already know that. It seems like you set high expectations of what you want to get from books. Truth is, there’s not much these philosophers are saying and your interpretation is probably sufficient.

>> No.13484446

>>13484209
rude

>> No.13484511

I agree as a 140 IQ individual. Heh... fucking midwits

>> No.13484611

>>13483781
Describe one original, truly " brilliant" thought you've had in your life.

>> No.13484628

>>13483360
>work ethic is more important than intelligence.

you're obviously not as smart as you think, cuckbrain

>> No.13484639

How do you guys even know your IQ? Don't tell me you're using the tests online as they are extremely inaccurate

>> No.13484641

>>13483516
118 and 112 are practically the same.

>> No.13484670

>>13484628
intelligent but lazy person who has a few good ideas but is too crippled by mental issues to further work on them
vs average iq person who has average ideas but has the dedication and work ethic to further expand on them and create something worthwhile
Mhmm so much for work ethic, retard

>> No.13484689

>>13483010
High IQ is reading a philosopher and then just btfoing everything they say.

>> No.13484697

>>13484034
How do you not know Nick Fuentes or Kantbot?

>> No.13484726

>>13482353
>e-celeb shit

>> No.13484777

>>13482353
missing justin murphy, joe rogan, REI, BAP, nassem taleb, christgau, chapos, etc.
if you weren't a pseud you wouldn't need to ignore them though lol

>> No.13484780

>>13484697
>expecting people to know twitter nobodies
cringe. i only "know" them because of this board, and when i went to see their twitter i was met with cringe.

>> No.13484786

>>13484689
hello icycalm

>> No.13484790

>>13482353
Doctors actually told me that my IQ was too big for “numerical representation”. I wish I could say that it doesn’t effect my world but it’s pretty hard living up to that many brain points. Tbh I consider anything from 110 - 140 to be lucky cuz I’m going to gonna halve to go to the doctor again soon so they can drill wholes in my brain to let some of the pressure out. It’s not the same thing as cranial expansion surgery(tho I might halve to get that soon to because my brain keeping getting so much more enormous) The only other person I know whose had to get this surgery is Sargon if Akkad. Apparently he was some ancient war general or something who hated feminists. Anyways

Ugghh my head hurts! Consider your self lucky bro

>> No.13484822

>>13484780
Kantbot makes me laugh though.

>> No.13484843
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13484843

>>13484790
Me was
too smart make brain hurty....... Me use
big rock and hit head till big iq go down...... me like
being unsmarter lik you....... me midwit
jus like you now..... me once
big head now head inside head smaller than before...... me realise
now that taxation is theft.....

>me face when before the after rock hit brain. me face when still bigger brained than you even.....
pic related

>> No.13484871

>>13482372
Destiny isn't a midwit

>> No.13484983

>>13482353
Why has mid wit suddenly become a popular term for threads and /lit/ discussion in general? Did something outside of /lit/ popularize it or was it internal?

>> No.13485003

>>13484670
Discipline is an aspect of intelligence, but not of iq. Iq is not indicative of intelligence as a whole, just the pattern finding aspect of it.

>> No.13485445

>>13485003
I don't know man, the people I know with the strongest work ethic are people you would probably consider below average intelligence. Then again intelligence is subjective, a chemical engineer or whatever can't pull apart a dozer in their sleep whereas an experienced heavy diesel mechanic doesn't know how to do whatever the engineer does.

>> No.13485473

>>13484034
7 is maddox/george ouzounian/cuck
10 is thunderf00t/phil mason

>> No.13485502

>>13482353
God, imagine being this self-conscious.

>> No.13485519

>>13482353
Pop-intellectuals are very influential weather you like it or not. You are not above it all.

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>>13485519
>weather you like it or not

>> No.13485811

>>13482409
varg is fine but linux varg deserve a spot

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>>13485811

>> No.13485826

>>13482362
Yeah I like Rogan too. I like his approach of just admitting he doesn't know much and isn't smart and how he lets people talk at length about their theories, even if many of those people are also kind of memes. It's just a refreshing change of atmosphere from all the ego and posturing and conflict that usually accompany public discussion.

>> No.13485917

>>13485445
intelligence isn’t the same knowledge, moron. cognitive ability can be objectively measured.

>> No.13485932

>>13483553
Kant
>inb4 still alive
Kant will never die

>> No.13485984

A thread where anons argue about the iq test results they got off of free internet quizzes.

>> No.13486023

>>13482353
Imagine knowing who these people are

>> No.13486048

>>13482353
you dolt. anyone in the triple digit IQ range can be outstanding in their field: no brain health issues and hard work are all that matters.

>> No.13486052

>>13486048
midwit

>> No.13486074

>>13482353
>no Jordan
Good, he's above all those

>> No.13486089

>>13482353
>being smarter than 90% of people is the worst fate

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>> No.13486096

>>13482353
zizek and chomsky are by, definition of their jobs, not pseudo-intellectual. harris is but you shouldn't ignore him because of his public significance
otherwise, absolutely based pic

>> No.13486127

>>13486096
>harris is but you shouldn't ignore him because of his public significance
also hitchens for this same reason, and dawkins for his work in evobio

>> No.13486169

>>13485811
I would rather you have not posted an image and just kept it an in-joke. It was much sweeter that way, I know, for I laughed.

>> No.13486176

>>13486074
you mean someone other than peterson? because he's right there next to icke

>> No.13486177

>>13484034
Jew #4 still hasn't been named.

>> No.13486179

>>13486127
kaku knows his physics

>> No.13486180

>>13484639
Guesstimate.

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>>13482353
>Zoe Quinn and Icycalm

>> No.13486232

>>13482353
Not even endorsing any of their ideas, but it seems very hard to believe zizek and chomsky are midwits even if some of chomsky's ideas are very mid-wit friendly

>> No.13486242

>>13484034
Middle is reporter for bbc called mehdi hassan. Also hard to believe is a midwit, although very possible

>> No.13486249

>>13484611
it's too complex for you, sorry. need to have 133-ish IQ to grasp it.

>> No.13486250

I never understood 4chan's obsession with IQ. It's obviously related to intelligence, but it is not the same, and the IQ=predestination meme is outright retarded.
Also, how the fuck is this lit related??

>> No.13486252

>>13484034
>>13486177
sam seder

>> No.13486281
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>>13484639
Right. Online IQ tests are lies designed to flatter you and sell you shit, just like Mensa. An actual IQ test involves going to a university and having experts run you through a barrage of questions and puzzles for 4 hours, and costs a few hundred bucks.

>> No.13486291

>>13482353
There are three good people in this pic related
1) chomsky. He's the only socialist i will tolerate.
2) the guy on the right next to the washing machine
3) Thomas Sowell

>> No.13486292 [DELETED] 

>>13484034
15 is Mike Cernovich

>> No.13486293 [DELETED] 

>>13486292
20 is Mike Cernovich. Not 15. got the number mixed up.

>> No.13486312

>>13482353
Alex Jones and Anita Sarkeesian are both based.

>> No.13486352

>>13482482
Based Quentin, make a 10h version of the john green song please

>> No.13486360

>>13483099
Chomsky 100% deserves to be on that list, Zizek not so much

>> No.13486390

>>13484151
>pat buchanan
Pat is the only one who honestly assess foreign affairs. Everyone else is a midwit or Jewish liar. Pat is 130+ IQ and doesn't give a fuck.

>> No.13486589

>>13486250
It's the only thing 'gifted' underachievers have to validate their existence, as they watch midwits move on to bigger and better things, whilst they sit in their bedrooms and try and make people feel worse about themselves.

It's similar to the height meme on 4chan, the difference being that height at least increases the chances of sex (and possibly even worse, the respect of other men). I cannot think of a single benefit having a 130+ IQ has, other than providing the odd novel interpretation of 2000 year old texts.

>> No.13486624

>>13483553
Uncle Ted

>> No.13486636

>>13486250
>and the IQ=predestination meme is outright retarded.
except it’s not. it defines your cognitive ability more accurately than anything else, basically all intelligence research supports that. sure, you may say, intelligence isn’t all there is to life, but that isn’t the point.

>> No.13486640

>>13482353
why is fantano there?

>> No.13486647

>>13486281
this. even mensa’s IQ tests can’t be trusted, they’re super inflated towards higher scores.

>> No.13486653

>>13486589
The best lawyers are the gifted underachievers.

>> No.13486668

>>13483553
>Giorgio Agamben
>Roberto Calasso
>Rémi Brague

>> No.13486672

My IQ is 100. What should i do? Can i improve my intelligence somehow like reading books or am i too retarded to do anything in life?

>> No.13486679

>>13486048
I wonder if there has ever been a 105-IQ outstanding mathematician since the Renaissance.
Your point is valid, but you're forgetting one important thing: the value of an expert in a field is measured by comparison to all others experts in the same field. If you're a 105-IQ guy with a good work ethic but everyone else is 130 IQ with comparable or better work ethic in a field that relies a lot on mental computation it's unlikely you'll stand out. See also: go. Try learning go after 25 and becoming a professional at asian level without being at least 130 in pattern recognition IQ.